Review: Never mind the joke title, 'PEN15' may be the year's best new show
The juvenile joke of the title and the oddness of its casting notwithstanding, Hulu's "PEN15," in which grown-up actresses Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle star as 13-year-old middle-schoolers amid an otherwise age-accurate cast, is as deep and real a comedy as you will see in a year already great for television comedy. Nothing more thoroughly conceived, delicately acted or emotionally true will be coming your way, sitcom or drama or in between.
Set in 2000 and co-created by Erskine and Konkle with Sam Zvibleman (who directed about half the episodes of the Cameron Espositio-Rhea Butcher sitcom "Take
